#writing

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered. ↗

— Stephen King

#life

Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#life

Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#on-fiction #writing #life

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written. ↗

— Stephen King

#life

The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#life

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal. ↗

— Steven Millhauser

#writing #life

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice. ↗

— Paul Auster

#loneliness #paper #words #writer #writing

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Crazy by definition is Knowing that true sanity is A figment of the educated mind ↗

— Caleb Warta

#insightful #insights #life #writing #education